The Treaty of Lisbon GAVE the European parliament a stronger role as co-legislator and the European Council its own president. Furthermore, the treaty introduced checks on subsidiarity - the CONCEPT that decisions should be taken as close as possible to the CITIZENS - in an effort to cut back on unnecessary RULES and regulations.

As a PATRIOTIC American, I am reluctant to leave my post as DIRECTOR of the National ECONOMIC Council because I FEEL a duty to fulfil my commitment to work on behalf of the American people.

I'm rooting for SAUDI Arabia GETTING a SEAT on the U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS Council.

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have MANY reports of growth and great ENCOURAGEMENT.

When the GOVERNMENT is handed over to the IRAQI Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil UNREST may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly DEPART, but Iraq NEEDS to step up to the plate on 30 June.

Our VOICE is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the SEARCH for peace and the reformulation of the INTERNATIONAL system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the PLANET. This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.

I WANTED to be able to SUPPORT myself without begging for handouts from the STATE. All of the writers I knew when I was a student were all GETTING grants from the Scottish ARTS Council.

Our problem in the 2015 general ELECTION was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still GOING to be freezing public sector WAGES, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a REAL alternative.

In 1962, Popjak and I LEFT the SERVICE of the Medical RESEARCH Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology SET up by Shell Research Ltd.

I never ran for STUDENT council or class PRESIDENT or any of that stuff. I didn't HANG out with those people. It was just a DIFFERENT universe from the one I inhabited.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's EXACTLY what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from CHAOS, but I know it's not the POOR folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a SOLUTION.

Saddam Hussein is a risk-taking aggressor who has attacked four countries, used chemical weapons against his own PEOPLE, professed a desire to harm the UNITED States and its allies, and, even faced with the prospect of his regime's imminent destruction, has still REFUSED to abide by SECURITY Council DEMANDS that he disarm.

The Clinton YEARS were not an economic NIRVANA; as CHAIRMAN of the president's Council of Economic Advisers during part of this time, I'm all too aware of mistakes and LOST opportunities.